Hello, writers-- I posted a new writing on the OWP Web Log. It is like the Summer Institute E-Anthology, so if you're interested, you can go there and read it, then post your responses. I'd appreciate feedback of any kind. It's a teacher lore piece I should have written over 15 years ago... To see it, you have to go to the OWP blog: http://blogs.writingproject.org/blogwrite24/discuss/msgReader$96 If you have questions about how to use the blog, contact our tech liaison, Sandra Effinger, at mseffie.mac.com It you just want me to send you the writing as an attachment, just reply to this e-mail. Here's just a little teaser to get you interested: Some Girls Would By Janis Cramer Martha was a skinny little nerd with an attitude. I didn’t like her much, maybe because she didn’t like me. She was a good writer, though, a tenth grader in my Creative Writing II class at Mustang High School... ...One day I called her to my desk to conference with her about her short story. “Martha, this story is good—great conflict, great character development…” “But?” she smirked. “Well, I think you rushed it, or else you couldn’t think of a good way to end it.” “What’s wrong with how it ended?” she shot back. I stared at her little brown eyes behind those thick lenses. “No girl would kill herself just because a boy she had a crush on didn’t like her.” Goose bumps went down my back as she stared right back at me. “Some girls would.”